The show originally was a half hour, and he played on for an hour. They had to split the tape into two shows in order to air it at the time. So, it only aired that one time. I don't remember the date, but I read that it did air as a re-run sometime later, as a full hour special. Late 90's, I think.

Feel sorry for Bill Murray?!?! Why? Every movie he's made that I've seen (and I think I've seen 'em all) has been well done. He even took one of the stupidest movie-concepts I've ever heard of ("Groundhog's Day"), and managed to make it into a money-making and very funny movie.

This role seems perfect for Bill, too. I mean, take a good look at this guy and tell me that Bill couldn't make this character interesting enuf to go see the movie.

I remember catching that when it aired... I didn't watch it that much and I didn't know it only aired twice. Lucky me. It was pretty wild... I noticed there was a pattern too and I couldn't figure out why nobody had done it before him.

What I don't get is why CBS didn't want it shown in reruns. Look at Millionaire, trailer trash love that show because it has the magic number One MILLION Dollars (dr evil pinky nibble). Simple fact is that gameshows today are farking cheap. I saw a rerun of the price is right from the mid 50's (or about then), the format of the show was very different but one of the guests walked away with $14K in prizes. Based on some cheesey inflation calculator (using 1956 as the starting year) that works out to just about 90K in 2000 dollars.

In other words, advertisement space on a game show is more expensive today and the shows generate more revenue, but the players are getting less money (inflation adjusted) than they did almost 45 years ago.

First off, he didn't cheat anything, he just outsmarted them, there's a difference. Second, the author of that article is a moron: "At this point, any sane player would have passed his spins if he could, since the odds of hitting a Whammy after not seeing one for that long would be high."

This is written by someone who clearly doesn't understand probability. The odds on your 150th spin are exactly the same as on your first. People tend to look at it the wrong way, they look at from the perspective of "what are the odds of not hitting a whammy 150 times in a row" when you phrase it that way, the odds are overwhelmingly against you. But that's not the situation, he's already gone 149, so the odds of getting to that point don't matter, all that matters now is the odds of not hitting one on his next spin, which is exactly the same as your first (assuming they don't add more whammies the longer you go, which in this case they didnt).

Simplified: what are the odds of flipping a coin 4 times and having it be heads every time? (1/2)^4 = (1/16)

now, three coin tosses have already been done and all three were heads, what is the odds that the next one will be heads? the answer is simply (1/2) because the first three are irrelevant.

the statement should have read: "At this point, any sane player would have passed his spins if he could, since the game was easily won, and continuing to spin could cost him everything."

all I can remember about this show was the "No Whammies" part... I prefer Classic Concentration with Alex Trebek... he'd dress so stupid on that show, in Hawaiian shirts or silk or something... not nearly as sophisticated as on Jeopardy!

I remember a few years ago that USA used to show a bunch of game shows every weekday afternoon after their morning of American Gladiators. They had Press Your Luck, Joker's Wild, Chain Reaction, and others. And they had game shows on the Family Channel like Tivial Pursuit and Name That Tune. And I haven't seen any of these on Game Show Network. Bring in these shows and get rid of that godawful Newlywed Game.

Man, that is funny! What nimrod programmed that game board? Seriously. 6 light patterns, are you kidding me? HAHAHAHA....god bless that guy for making the network (and whoever programmed that board) look like the flaming idiots they are.